Charlie Hebdo editor Gerard Biard defended the satirical magazine’s decision to put a cartoon depiction of the Prophet Muhammad on its cover following this month’s brutal terrorist attacks, in an interview that aired Sunday.

“We do not attack religion, but we do when it gets involved in politics,” Biard, who was in London during the attack on Charlie Hebdo, said on NBC‘s Meet the Press.

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